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Biological Anthropology Unit 1 Exam Questions and Answers
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Biological Anthropology Unit 1 ExamQuestions and Answers
Anthropology - Answer-the study of humankind in a cross-cultural context; includes the
subfields: cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, archaeology, and biological
anthropology
Archaeology - Answer-the study of the material culture of past peoples
Artifact - Answer-objects, from tools to art, left by earlier generations of people
Biogeography - Answer-The distribution of animals and plants on the Earth
Biological Anthropology - Answer-the study of humans as biological organisms,
considered in an evolutionary framework; sometimes called physical anthropology
Catastrophism - Answer-Theory that there have been multiple creations interspersed by
great natural disasters such as Noah's flood (Cuvier)
Common Ancestry - Answer-all species are descended from a single ancient common
ancestor
Cultural Anthropology - Answer-The study of human societies, especially in a cross-
cultural context; the subdivision of anthropology that includes ethnology, archaeology,
and linguistics
Early Naturalists - Answer-Believed the world was a recent, unchanging, and divine
creation ; interested in natural things like biology, geology, astronomy, etc.; theologians
who read the bible as text describing literal events (ex: Linneaus)
Ethnography - Answer-the practice of cultural anthropology; ethnographers study the
minute-to-minute workings of human societies, especially non-Western societies
Fitness - Answer-reproductive success
Forensic Anthropology - Answer-the study of human remains applied to a legal context
Fossils - Answer-the preserved remnants of once-living things, often buried in the
ground
Great Chain of Being - Answer-purpose-youth-fullness-stasis-essentialism
Hypothesis - Answer-A preliminary explanation of a phenomenon; the first step in the
scientific method
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